Charles Xii And The Collapse Of The Swedish Empire Didactic Press Paperbacks

Download or read book Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire [Didactic Press Paperbacks] written by R. Nisbet Bain and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE present work has no pretention to be anything like an exhaustive biography of Charles XII.--a perfectly adequate treatment of so large and complex a subject would demand many volumes. But it does claim to at least suggest the lines on which such a biography should be written, it professes to present the leading facts of the heroic monarch's career in the light of the latest investigations and it endeavours to dissipate the many erroneous notions concerning "The Lion of the North" for which Voltaire's brilliant and attractive work, I have almost said romance, Histoire de Charles XII. is mainly responsible...